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After Japan announced it would advance the end of their hunting season, Conservation Center Cetacean said "it's time to redouble diplomatic efforts and global citizenship to finally stop this irrational and very old practice. "Ecoceanos While conservationists said that countries should move to modernize the IWC and to end loopholes that allow the killing of whales.


Santiago de Chile, 16 February 2011 (Ecoceanos / CCC) - The Center for Cetacean Conservation and Ecoceanos held on Wednesday announced the Japanese government to stop its whaling operations in southern sea waters, but announced that it is necessary to move towards full compliance with the moratorium and sanctuaries for whales.
suspended Japanese whalers operating in Antarctica as a result of pressure from environmental groups and then American governments raise a formal letter to Japan, urging him not to continue using the loophole of "hunting science "to kill whales.
The Japanese announcement came a day after Chile's Navy said it would keep watch on the whaling ship Nisshin Maru which unexpectedly changed its course to head towards the Antarctic Peninsula, near the waters of our country.


spokesman for the Fisheries Agency of Japan announced that the whaling factory ship "Nisshin Maru" paralyzed their catches on 10 February by security before the "aggressive practices" of the conservation group Sea Shepherd. At present it is considered the return of three other ships of the whaling fleet with a total crew of 180 sailors who captured cetaceans in waters of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
face of this suspension of whaling, Elsa Cabrera Cetacean Conservation Center (CCC) from the island of Chiloé, Chile, noted that "it is time that countries Conservationists redouble its diplomatic efforts and global citizenship demands the closure of the whaling in line with the moratorium adopted by the majority of IWC members 25 years ago. In the 21st century is unacceptable Japan abusive behavior towards the conservation of marine species and governance of the Antarctic. "
Meanwhile Ecoceanos Juan Carlos Cardenas, said that" what has happened in Antarctic waters close to Chile, shows that only a strong will to fight of citizen organizations has led Japan to retreat temporarily. We hope that Latin American countries and the Caribbean achieved before the next meeting of the International Whaling Commission, take concrete actions to which it has been the last season of the Nisshin Maru Antarctica, and to close existing loopholes that allow the urgent modernization of the IWC. "
Meanwhile, Cosme Caracciolo, the National Confederation of Artisanal Fishermen of Chile (Conapach) said "Cosme" temporary cessation of operations of "scientific whaling" in Japan in Antarctic waters, is the clearest evidence of the weakening of this destructive industry, making clear the visionary achievement that meant the absolute prohibition hunting in Chilean waters by Law 20,293 of 2008, the result of a citizens' campaign "Chile 2008, Whale Sanctuary," which led Conapach next to the Conservation Center and Center Cetacea Ecoceanos "


INTERNATIONAL REJECTION begins to bear fruit


Whaling reported to Tokyo shares constant criticism and rejection of international public opinion, which included a complaint from Australia to the International Criminal Court The Hague and the strong statement of rejection of the Latin American bloc and Caribbean grouped in the "Buenos Aires Group" to hide, under assumptions for scientific whaling, purely commercial motivations.
In recent years, the Japanese operations in southern sanctuary waters have been complicated by progressive pressure vessels from the anti-whaling activists, which led to the irritation of the Japanese government.
spokesman Minister of Japan, Yukio Edan, today deplored the stonewalling against the issuing "scientific" and said Japan will call on other nations to take action against him. Japan, Iceland and Norway are the only countries that continue to hunt whales. The country carried out since 1987 expeditions to the Antarctic waters under the scientific interest of course, by the Institute of Cetacean Research. Japan abandoned commercial whaling in 1986 due to the implementation of an international moratorium. However, a year after hunting resumed operations under a program for scientific purposes, taking advantage of existing loopholes in the International Whaling Commission (IWC), to the skepticism and criticism of countries and environmental organizations.


AND JAPAN CONSUME NO WHALES


The whale meat consumption has been falling steadily in Japan. In 2009 only 4,200 tons were sold, compared with 230,000 tonnes in 1962. This has meant high reserves of stored whale meat in Japan, last August reached a record of more than 6000 tons. All this demonstrates the lack of the Japanese people by the consumption of whale meat.
Of the thousand whales that Japan is self imposed as annual hunting quota has been progressively reduced to little more than 500 minke whales and fin whales 2008 as 507 minke whales caught in 2010, 60 percent of its goal, having suspended the expedition for 31 days due to pressure from environmental fleet of Sea Shepherd.